Wanted man lured to his arrest
A Stevensville man wanted for failure to appear and violation of probation was arrested Tuesday night after county police asked a woman he knows to meet him at a Safeway store in Edgewater, police said.
The woman called police about 8:30 p.m., after the man called her and asked her to meet him outside the store for a drug deal, police said. Southern District officers came up with a plan for the woman to meet the man at the store in the first block of Mayo Road and lure him into her car, after which they would make the arrest.
The plan went awry when the man saw the officers and ran back back into the store. He removed several overhead panels and hid in the ceiling for nearly two hours before surrendering, police said.
Robert Edward Farrell, 27, of the 700 block of Cloverfield Road was wanted for failure to appear in a criminal case and a nonsupport case, police said.